Rheumatoid arthritis

Breast implants not to blame for illnesses Despite the claims of thousands of women that silicone breast implants caused diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, researchers report that...

New drug helps juvenile rheumatoid arthritis A new drug for treating children and adolescents suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis has been found to be remarkably effective, according to a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine...

Thalidomide Is Back Nearly four decades ago, a new sedative brought the golden age of pharmaceuticals to a tragic end. The drug debuted in Europe in 1957 as a treatment for nausea, and within a few years it was being sold in more than a dozen countries to relieve...

Breakthrough cancer therapy may treat other illnesses Anti-angiogenesis therapies designed to fight cancer by starving tumors of their blood supply may also offer hope to patients suffering from other diseases, including asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, researchers report...

US approves osteoporosis treatment The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved the drug Actonel to treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and people taking corticosteroids...

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Say happy birthday to the Pill The birth control pill turned 40 this week, and researchers report there are plenty of reasons to celebrate...

Vioxx shown safer on GI tract than older drug Merck & Co. Inc. said on Wednesday that rheumatoid arthritis patients taking its drug Vioxx suffered less than half the incidence of ulcers and serious gastrointestinal problems of those taking a popular older drug, naproxen, in a large safety trial...

Antibody injection fights rheumatoid arthritis in mice Mice with a rheumatoid arthritis-like disease are less likely to have joint swelling or joint destruction if given injections of a specific type of antibody, researchers report...

US clears first-line use for arthritis drug Enbrel The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Immunex's Enbrel for use as a first line treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...